15,120 people over the age of 12 in the District of Columbia—3 percent of the city’s total population—are HIV/AIDS positive, according to a study released by the D.C. Department of Health on Monday. D.C.’s HIV rate, which is comparable to that of Uganda and some parts of Kenya, far outpaces the 1 percent infection rate that the Center for Disease Prevention and Control says qualifies as a generalized and severe epidemic.
Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar hosted its first-ever career fair last Thursday in Doha. Open only to SFS-Q students, the fair included representatives from 24 companies, including ExxonMobil, BP, Al-Jazeera Children’s Channel, the Brookings Institution, and the Qatar News Agency.
The Georgetown University Student Association has long suffered from a democratic deficit: students often feel detached from the organization and see it as uninterested in their needs. To a large extent, this image is unwarranted. Over the past several years, the Student Association has developed into a respectably effective organization, thanks to a string of committed presidents and a number of institutional reforms.
A train—massive and wheezing—pulls into the sleepy station, uses all of its remaining steam to slow its momentum and click-click-click to a gradual stop. It holds its passengers enchanted under... Read more
The HIV/AIDS rate in Washington, D.C., has reached epidemic proportions. More than 3 percent of the District’s residents have HIV or AIDS, the highest rate in the nation and one... Read more
When Calen Angert (MSB `11) and Jason Kluger (MSB `11) are sworn in as Student Association President and Vice President, they’ll have a lot on their plate. They’ve promised to... Read more
In recent years, the small but fast growing movement to implement single-sex public education in the United States has been picking up steam. Some elementary and middle schools in Virginia... Read more
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